Is Suzuki’s SV650X Rally destined for production?
It looks like Suzuki’s concept could join the company's 2018 lineupSuzuki is set to unveil a far more on-trend version of its SV650 at next month’s Tokyo Motor Show, with the SV650X widely expected to form part of the Japanese firm’s 2018 model line-up.
Effectively it’s a more plausible production version of the SV650 Rally which Suzuki revealed at its domestic Osaka Motor Show last year.
It swaps the concept’s rather fragile looking front guard for the stock SV650’s, replaces the Yoshimura exhaust with a standard (road-legal) version and uses the stock bike’s mirrors instead of the concept-only bar-end affairs. The wire-guarded headlight, which Suzuki said at the time was inspired by tarmac rally cars of the 1970s, has also gone.
What we’re left with is a trick-looking half-faired SV650 with slightly revised ergonomics, an addition which makes perfect sense for the firm’s 2018-model line-up.
Suzuki hasn’t confirmed the SV650X is headed for showrooms next year, instead saying it will “first assess reactions to the SV650X before finalising plans”, but all signs suggest that’s exactly where it’s headed. Here’s hoping.
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